DOJ Continues To Obstruct Efforts For Megaupload Users To Get Their Files Back (via Techdirt) For a while we had followed the bizarre situation with Megaupload’s servers. As you may recall, the Justice Department seized them all, following...

By Naomi Tajitsu WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom on Friday suffered another blow to his fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges after New Zealand’s highest court rejected...

US Court Secretly Lets Government Share Megaupload Evidence With Copyright Industry (via Techdirt) In the latest in a long list of travesties carried out by the US government in the Megaupload case, apparently it went to the US court handling...

Megaupload raid affected tens of millions of legitimate files (via The Inquirer) THE UNITED STATES government shutting down filesharing websites might be a blunt tool that harms individuals more than it helps industry. A report from Northeastern...

A US bid to extradite Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom from New Zealand for alleged online piracy has been delayed until at least November, court officials said. The extradition case, launched after Dotcom was arrested in an armed raid on his Auckland...

New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Thursday granted Kim Dotcom leave to appeal a ruling that US authorities do not have to disclose all of the evidence they have against the Megaupload founder. The Court of Appeal in March had overturned a...

The cyber locker website MegaUpload was planning to go public with a “multi-billion dollar” IPO when authorities raided their facilities and accused them of a “mega conspiracy” to pirate copyrighted materials, according...

A judge in Alexandria, Virginia ruled Friday in favor of attorneys for the cyberlocker website MegaUpload, ordering the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to work with the site’s operators to return personal files to more than 60 million of...

Video footage of a police raid on the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is missing, and authorities claim they’re not quire sure what happened to it. This flub is just the latest in anti-piracy allegations against the file-hosting site, and...

A small business owner who used MegaUpload’s cloud-based storage system has asked a federal court to let him retrieve files that were seized as part of a criminal copyright investigation. Kyle Goodwin, who runs a business reporting on high...

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom, the eccentric New Zealand millionaire accused of running the largest copyright theft operation in history, told a technology publication Monday that he is readying an “entertaining” motion in response...

WELLINGTON — A New Zealand court granted Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom NZ$60,000 ($49,000) a month in living expenses Thursday as he awaits a US bid to extradite him on online piracy charges, reports said. The German national reportedly applied for...

Kim Dotcom, the notorious founder of MegaUpload and one of the most-wanted alleged copyright infringers in the world, may get all his stuff back from police after a judge ruled that authorities seized his property on a faulty court order. A...

WELLINGTON — Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom on Thursday accused US authorities of mounting a “misleading and malicious” case against him, saying there was no way they could win a landmark online piracy action. Free on bail in New Zealand...

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom is set to learn Wednesday if he will remain free on bail in New Zealand while US authorities seek his extradition on online piracy charges, reports said Tuesday. The German national was released last week after a judge...